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declaration of a state of national emergency concurrent with a —_ Then there was an entry from either September 9 or 10, 1985, in mythical invasion (code-named Operation Night Train) of an which Ollie North, through Colonel James Steele, used a Special unspecified Central American country, presumably Nicaragua. Operations Unit brought in by Wally Gresheim and Litton. Get ",..Rex-84 Bravo was designed to test FEMA's readiness to his diary." assume authority over Department of Defense personnel, all fifty None dares call it fascism, of course, but due to this explosive state National Guard forces and a number of 'State Defense Force’ lawsuit by a framed American serviceman, Bill Tyree, the origin units which were to be created by state legislative enactments. of FEMA and its illegal funding may finally be known. FEMA would 'deputize' all DoD and state National Guard person- nel, so as to avoid violating the federal Posse Comitatus Act Il. THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAME which forbids using any military forces for domestic law enforce- Spooky Parallels: The Tyree & MacDonald Cover-ups ment," writes Bradlee. hen criminals in government are about to be exposed, a In the lawsuit, Tyree quotes Colonel Carone's testimony that story is concocted which uses some of the facts, mixes it "FEMA was one of those off-the-shelf creations that was funded with lies, and obscures the rest. This disinformation is then through the giant black-operations fund which came about from spread throughout the media and—voild/—a cover-up is born. drug-trafficking operations instituted by the CIA, which Congress With Hollywood connections, a TV movie is produced. This new has no idea of and no control over" and that "the FEMA Chain of _—_ dose of fiction then becomes irrefutable "fact" in public memory. Command, rules and regulations that he had seen, violated the US Just so, there are significant parallels between the murder case Constitution and actually established a succession to the Office of | of former Green Beret Bill Tyree and Dr Jeffrey MacDonald. the President in the event of an emergency that circumvented the — Both involve CIA/military drug smuggling crimes and cover-ups. Vice President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives". Both men were set up and convicted. Both men have been lan- According to the lawsuit: "Carone said, 'NSC [National guishing in prison for 20 years. Security Council] used drug trafficking profits to start FEMA The story of emergency physician Dr Jeffrey MacDonald, without congressional approval...a framed for the murder of his wife 1981 NSC Directive written by Collette and children Kimberly and Frank Carlucci [states]: "Normally Kristen in 1970, remains a tragedy. a state of martial law will be pro- Author Joe McGinnis wrote a best- claimed by the President. However, Colonel Carone, who died in 1990, selling book, Fatal Vision, which in the absence of such action by the was made into a TV movie of the President, a senior military com- was a CIA paymaster and Mafia- same name in 1984. mander may impose martial law in connected money launderer who, The real story is the frame-up of an area of his command where there an innocent man who had powerful had been a complete breakdown in incidentally, held the rank of full enemies. It's described in great the exercise of government func- i i detail by Jerry Allen Potter and Fred tions by local authorities."' colonel in Army Intelligence. Bost in Fatal Justice: "Colonel Carone said a literal Reinvestigating the MacDonald interpretation of the 1981 NSC Murders (W.W. Norton & Co., Directive was that a local yokel 1997). National Guard commander could However, as Errol Morris, direc- institute martial law, and the actions of FEMA, without local citi- tor of The Thin Blue Line, writes: "If you think you know the zens ever knowing how FEMA came to be or what FEMA was Jeffrey MacDonald case from Fatal Vision, think again. Fatal originally intended to be about, would automatically be triggered Justice is the first account of the whole story." without any type of presidential order," it is alleged in the lawsuit. The Boston Phoenix called Fatal Justice “a devastating rebuttal "Congress doesn't even have the purse strings on this one," to Fatal Vision". Carone said. "It's all from the Black Operations fund which An investigator in the MacDonald case, former LA FBI Special Congress will never force the US Intelligence Community to Agent in Charge Ted Gunderson, obtained a signed confession admit even exists." from Helena Stoeckley, "the girl in the floppy hat", who told him Incidentally, according to criminal conspiracy investigator that the group she was involved with "was active in an interna- Sherman Skolnick, Representative Henry Hyde of Illinois has tional drug operation that involved US Army personnel, including been handling this fund for the CIA and has done an "admirable" Army officers, police officers and at least two local attorneys" in job in keeping it under wraps, completely removed from public the Fort Bragg area. According to Time magazine (January 1, scrutiny. 973), heroin was being flown into the United States from the Far According to Tyree, Carone also said that unindicted drug con- East in plastic bags hidden in the body cavities of dead GIs. spirator Oliver North's role was admitted in his own diary (p. 91 According to Gunderson, members of this group "...tried to of the lawsuit): shake down Dr MacDonald because he was abusive to those who "You want the diary of Oliver North [said Carone]. Inside that overdosed on drugs in the civilian hospital where he was moon- diary is your whole case. It will tell you that he knew of drug ighting... The assailants [of MacDonald's family] were high on trafficking even if he wasn't involved directly, which is what he drugs and the situation escalated to the murders. Their intentions will claim. I remember one entry from May 12, 1984, to the to shake down Dr MacDonald were not known or approved by the effect that he knew one of his contacts was trafficking drugs. leaders of the drug operation. When it was realized by the leaders Another entry from July 20, 1984 basically stated that there was that members of their network committed these murders, they cargo offloaded at the ranch of John Hull. The cargo that was were concerned that an investigation of the cult would expose the offloaded was cocaine. I recall seeing an entry from August 9, drug operations—thus the cover-up and 'framing' of Dr 1985, that a specific aircraft was being used for drug trafficking. MacDonald." Then there was an entry from either September 9 or 10, 1985, in which Ollie North, through Colonel James Steele, used a Special Operations Unit brought in by Wally Gresheim and Litton. Get his diary." None dares call it fascism, of course, but due to this explosive lawsuit by a framed American serviceman, Bill Tyree, the origin of FEMA and its illegal funding may finally be known. was a CIA paymaster and Mafia- connected money launderer who, incidentally, held the rank of full colonel in Army Intelligence. NEXUS +37 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2000